Chandan Mitra
For more than eight years, Narendra Modi has faced the wrath of the media and some motivated NGOs. Paradoxically, he has emerged stronger!
There is this story and I don’t think it’s apocryphal. It involves Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and a leading television news anchor. This apparently happened after Mr Modi won a stunning two-thirds mandate from the electorate in 2002 despite a sustained campaign targeting him in the national, as well as local, media for his alleged role in the post-Godhra riots. When the TV personality walked into the Chief Minister’s chamber for an interview Mr Modi got up, shook his hand and thanked him effusively. Taken aback by this unexpected gesture, the anchor asked the Chief Minister why, in spite of the hostility shown by the channel, he was being thanked. Mr Modi tersely replied, “But for your hate campaign against me, I would not have won such a huge victory. I hope you continue to spew venom in the years to come.”
More than eight years after the ghastly mass murder of innocent kar sevaks in Godhra and the frightening reaction to that incident, Mr Modi still remains a demonic figure for most of the media. Barring this newspaper no other English-language publication presents a balanced picture of his formidable achievements. The Gujarati media, propelled by brazen financial greed, continues to snipe at him because he spurns their endless demands for official favours. English news channels spare no opportunity to haul him over the coals on the slightest pretext. Yet, Mr Modi remains the greatest Gujarati icon since Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and perhaps India’s most dynamic Chief Minister with a development record that is the envy of his counterparts. Mr Modi’s 2002 assertion that the media’s demonisation of him will work to his political advantage has turned out to be prophetic.
This article is not meant to be an ode to Mr Modi; he hardly requires more adulation than he already gets. But the manner in which the English-language media recently went ballistic over the SIT’s decision to summon him for questioning underlined the visceral hatred of this section of the so-called secular news dispensers towards him. Having tried strenuously and failed repeatedly to dislodge him from the Chief Minister’s chair the media now clutches at straws. Last week they again demanded to know: “Shouldn’t Modi resign now that the SIT has summoned him?” This poser didn’t go far, because being called for interrogation is hardly ground for an elected Chief Minister to put in his papers. Many senior politicians, some of them holding high office, have appeared in court to testify after chargesheets were filed against them and trials commenced. It is not even clear if Mr Modi will have to physically appear before the SIT or merely send the State’s Advocate-General to reply on his behalf. In fact, after the Supreme Court’s observation in a related case last week that the SIT was set up to oversee proper conduct of the probe and could not also appropriate the right to investigate, even the legal validity of the summons is in question.
The media then fell back on tried and tested tear-jerkers, recalling in lurid detail the atrocities perpetrated during the post-Godhra violence, without even a cursory reference to what happened in Godhra itself. It was conveniently overlooked that following tantrums thrown by various motivated NGOs, fresh trials were ordered by the apex court in several cases of mob violence. In the gruesome Bilkis Bano case, in which the pregnant woman was not only brutally killed but allegedly the unborn foetus also ripped out of her stomach, the Gujarat Police filed charges against 18 people. After a fresh trial, this time outside Gujarat, the same 18 people were convicted. Now it transpires that the doctor who conducted the post-mortem testified recently that the ripping of the stomach and murder of the unborn child was a figment of some people’s macabre imagination. So much for the hyperbole about the subversion of the investigative process by a ‘communalised’ Gujarat Police! Exactly the same happened to the probe into the Best Bakery incident, proving yet again that the shifting out of trials from Gujarat has made no difference to their outcome.
This brings me to the crux of the matter. Certain dubious NGOs, obviously on the payroll of Mr Modi’s political opponents, have been getting their way with the courts through sheer lung power, nuisance value and ‘secular’ credentials. They got cases shifted out of Gujarat, kicked up enough ruckus through a sympathetic media to get the SIT installed by the Supreme Court, and used every ploy in their arsenal to fulfil their political paymaster’s objectives. These NGOs have been guilty of forging signatures in the distribution of relief to riot victims, and stand accused of bestial behaviour towards those who did not toe their line. Best Bakery’s Zahira Sheikh learnt this the hard way and served a jail sentence for perjury because she could not bear the NGOs’ torture and changed her statement in court. The same NGOs are now livid with the SIT, which in many ways is their brainchild.
Because there is no FIR or chargesheet against Mr Modi, they think the SIT too has been indoctrinated by Mr Modi’s brand of Hindutva. They have publicly accused some members of the SIT of being the Chief Minister’s sidekicks. The NGO concerned seeks to be the complainant, advocate, judge and hangman all rolled into one! I recall one of their ilk, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (also anti-Gujarat and anti-Modi) using abusive language against Supreme Court judges because the verdict on Sardar Sarovar didn’t go in their favour. An avuncular Bench of the court let off the rabble-rousers, including a well-known anti-national litterateur, with a mild warning. The social and media clout of these professional disruptors and diabolical breast-beaters is truly incredible.
It is, therefore, with some amusement that I followed the same media’s incandescent rage against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati last week. Her money-mala at the BSP’s 25th foundation day rally was undoubtedly crass and exhibitionist. But it wasn’t a political crime the way the media portrayed it. For decades, politicians have been weighed against coins at public meetings and the funds thus collected were viewed as donations from ‘adoring’ supporters. Many of Ms Mayawati’s actions run counter to accepted social norms as well as aesthetics. Installing statues of oneself is not something Indians (irrespective of caste) are comfortable with. Ms Mayawati’s political opponents have every right to question the use of public money for such activities. But in gunning for the garland of notes, the media should have recalled how Chaudhary Devi Lal had made it a habit to have his formidable bulk measured in coins.
By cocking a snook at the media and accepting yet another garland of notes 48 hours after the first, she has not just brazened out the criticism but probably enhanced the admiration with which her core supporters behold her. In the end, the media diatribe may have ended up as a much needed booster for the embattled leader. Isn’t it time our media pundits stepped out of their air-conditioned ivory towers and conducted a reality check for themselves?
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 On the other hand, Mayawati criticism is fairBy Bala on 3/28/2010 3:17:37 PM While I agree with Chandan on the media's one-sided and antagonistic coverage of Modi, I am surprised at why the article needed to bring in Mayawati and give her an almost clean-chit for her repulsive displays of power. There was no need to speak of the two in the same breath; Modi is a man who has a development agenda but who's seen by vested media interests only through the prism of post-Godhra. |
| To Ashish Patel By Indian on 3/28/2010 9:41:38 AM If "UPA stands for equality for all irrespective of caste, creed, race or religion", then they would not try to introduce religion based quota and would have worked hard to abolish castism. The ground reality is that your UPA leaders are practicing some thing that is worse than apartheid in South Africa. We need another Nelson Mandela to fight this policy of discrimination. |
| The Spell Cast by the Nehruvian Era on Indian Political, Academic, Intellectual Life is Amazing By K.C.Sharma on 3/27/2010 4:00:11 PM Nehruvian Socialism and Secularism (actually pseudo) still lives, although the socialism is slowly nearing its end, in fact the legatees of Nehru himself have given it up as dead but the political, intellectual, academic class are still clinging to psedo-secularism. It is really amazing how slavishly but arrogantly this class does not want to let go for fear of their image getting spoiled in the foreign colonial media, forgetting that it is not the colonial masters who taught us tolerance . |
| Yellow Press and Banana Republic By Anu on 3/25/2010 11:19:53 PM All this can be summed up by two terms - NGO's, Indian institutions, vested interests etc as "Banana Republic" and media role as "Yellow Press"... And evidently what was shocking was the audacity with which media defended its propagating "misinformation". Ironically they justified their actions under the very pretext of "Yellow Journalism's" values .. |
| Responsibility of powerful towards Modi ji and Nation By d kumar on 3/25/2010 7:18:48 PM Sir ,I request you to tirelessly provide correct views to the people like you are doing . I would like to remind the judiciary and SIT official that first they are citizens of this country and everything else aftrwards. I ask them how many honest CM like Modi ji this country has got. By implicating him ,they are usurping the right of the people of gujrat and this country to get honest CM and honest PM at later date. |
| Modi ji our saviour By dharmendra kumar on 3/24/2010 8:34:00 PM Sir i thank you for your good article.Through your esteemed newaspaper,i want Modi ji to go to SIT with following questions : 1. How many deaths hvae occurred due to corruption? 2.Are SIT officials as honest as Mr Modi.3.Can they declare their assets and convince the public with credible expenditure and income .4.If not they should be summoned first and prosecuted alomg with corrupt judges. |
| ngo's agenda By sg on 3/24/2010 6:16:08 PM i think we have to examine the accounts of all ngo's that receive funds from over seas and some who have political patronage of the politicians and you will find them backed by mostly secular media houses backed by the congress or the communists. news in this country seems so lop sided and i have given up seeing news channals run by indians. these guys just cant see a bjp leader or specially modi growing from strength to strength and will spit venom on every possible occassion. |
| Media's Dogmatic approach By Neal on 3/24/2010 6:06:12 PM The English Media's onslaught on Mr. Modi and then on the other side turning a blind eye to Islamic Terrorism and using connotations like "Islamophobia" for those who voice their concern against radical islam is not going to serve the purpose . |
| Mr narendra Modi By Parameswaran on 3/24/2010 3:44:28 PM Mr Chandan Mitra ..Why don't you start publishing from Bangalore..There will be lakhs and lakhs of readers waiting in Bangalore to read your truely secular esteemed respectable newspaper. |
| NGOs - the agents of Imperialism and Mafia media By bharat on 3/24/2010 10:57:58 AM Their modus operandi is reminder of the era of fascism in Musolini’s Italy. You don’t even need to guess where these liars and hate monger’s on the TV get their life blood from. |
| strange days By Agrasar on 3/23/2010 3:48:37 PM There have been reports that some of the NGOs involved produced fake affidavits,got people to sign them and testify under duress,and then there are all sorts of distortions in the manner of propoganda by the media.Aren't such acts themselves ILLEGAL?What is being done to create serious and water tight cases against such groups?This is not just about libel,it is about criminal intent and subversion of the state. |
| Pioneer, please reach us in Bangalore and Chennai By Ram on 3/23/2010 3:17:14 PM There is no quality newspaper which provides a balance in presentation like yours. Mitraji, I see you in TV debates against the arrogant Manish Tiwari, Jayanthi, Sighvi and the like. But you uphold the righteousness in all the debates with cool mind. I wish you reach us in Bangalore and Chennai. |
| Can BJP has courage to fight Media Goons like NDTV By mkumar on 3/23/2010 1:50:59 AM Hi, Tapan, Your article tells real truth .I do appreciate your courage to bring the truth to public. Todays Broadcasting media like NDTV,IBN are the real goons and they have more muscle power then any ordinary goon .These baised channels are most dangerous element in our democracy if not control earliest will eat away the country. |
| dailypioneer rules By vijay on 3/22/2010 10:27:34 PM Dailypioneer is the only paper that has retained independance. I long since stopped reading the Hindu, the TOI is good only for Page3- well known fact across bangalore. I am a regular reader of DailyPioneer.com and i have recommended it to lots of people i know. Keep up the good work , Chandanji. |
| Rann By Mehta on 3/22/2010 5:42:51 PM The recent movie Rann seems to have captured this meida-ruler politico nexus very well.As one of the movie dialogues by Big B aptly summarises-"The objective should have been truthful news and the earning money the medium for the same.However today the false News stories have become a medium to fulfill objective of earning vulgar amounts of money".No wonder none of the channels gave this movie any good rating. |
| Electronic Media By Ravindra on 3/22/2010 4:03:40 PM Chandanji, This was one of the best articles on the media I have ever read! Nobody reads the newspaper these days. Please start a TV Channel - that is the only way for visibility. We need balance in the media - and only people like you can provide it, and for this, you need to start a news channel. Trust me, it will be a huge success! |
| Kudos for Chandan for a good article By Ramesh on 3/22/2010 12:57:58 PM I have been to Gujarat and seen first hand what Modibhai has done to the people. I am back to my native Chennai, but consider Modi as my CM and look up to him. He is honest, uncorrupted. I will be happy when he leads India into the next decade. He has vision and backs up with action. I have stopped watching English news altogether. However, like my fellow commentators, I wish we have a right wing news channel to give a balanced and clear view of how Hinduism is being undermined. |
| Modi-Media & NGOs By Balkrishnalal- Mumbai on 3/22/2010 11:10:33 AM I like this article. Because I would like to support Modi who is facing a lot of nuissance from Media and NGOs. A large secton of Media, be it the award winning journalists or the No. 1 new chennel, they are extremely biased. It is very very obivious that they are truly "paid chennels". In fact, because of their biased attitude, most of them have substantially eroded their credibility and we hardly trust their chennel. |
| You actually deserves lot respect..... By Dharmesh on 3/22/2010 9:06:53 AM Simply unbiased true analysis.....else others print and news media becoming rogue day after day.....nowadays reading paper is everydays painfull part of life.... Some rays.............. Salute to you for standing out trully different.... |
| Thank you English Media By Gujjubhai on 3/22/2010 6:18:47 AM I must thank Chandan Mitra and more than him I should thank all other English media.... This new cry about SIT is all BS. At present Modi is securing another 10 seat for his next election. Gujarat Congress will not say one word on this issue because the time they will say they will loose more seat in next election. Average voter is much smarter than Rajdeep-Barkha and so called intelligent secularist. He knows who should be in office who should not. |
| Thank You The Pioneer By Vijay Patel on 3/22/2010 3:05:44 AM This is the only newspaper has guts to tell the truth. And we Thank You for courage. Mr Modi wins elections not because he is anti muslim but because of his work to put Gujarat way ahead of rest of the country. The 24/7 news channels does not have permission from their masters to show rest of the nation all the figures of progress coming out Delhi. As far as after Godhra riots are concerned, Mr Modi or for that matter any leader could not have stopped it. |
| Media Bias Against Mr. Modi By Dev on 3/22/2010 2:10:13 AM I agrre with Mr. Mitra's analysis about media's bias along with zealots NGO. They do not talk about killing of karsevaks but post Godhra riots only. Anyhow public is much smarter than the so called secular media whose only aim is to portray Modi as a demonic person. Modi is a real karsevak of Gujrat who single hndidly made this State a powerful economic place to invest. |
| Roudra the Civilized (Psuedo) By Raj on 3/21/2010 10:30:51 PM Roudra Hello, so u think ur civilized? tell me why Modi was elected back ? more than once? actually Third time in a row? any answers? Gujarat is the fastest growing state in India WHY? HOW? do u have answers Mr. Civilized? ok i know u can answer now lets talk about Mr. Manmohan Singh, as Zakia jaffery claims her Right of Life and accusses Modi he failed to protect her right of life?? can we also accuse Mr. Manmohan Singh for the same as many blasts caused thousands deaths???? |
| Breath of fresh air By dadarocks on 3/21/2010 10:20:18 PM We do need you to pen this reality check piece showign our english media the proverbial mirror. Keep it up |
| Modi and Media By Manav on 3/21/2010 10:00:39 PM Thanks Chandan...I am here in Chicago trying to surf the news channels and find only one channel here in USA which is unbiased and try to focus on the crust of the discussion rather then logically fought vocal wars. I see lots of similarities in Barack obama and Narendra modi. Both of them are fighting back with odds. I was in Ahmedabad that day and I know No power on earth could have prevented or capped the anger of the Mass.. |
| modi n media By commonman on 3/21/2010 9:27:19 PM A Big Thank You to Chandan Mitra |
| High Time for 24x7 "Right of Center" Media By Dhananjay on 3/21/2010 8:46:22 PM It is high time for BJP to realize that the odds of any of its future plans succeeding hinge on a strong ""Right of Center" Media (TV, Print & web) presence - 24/7 news coverage in Hindi, English & at least top 10 regional languages. It is hard to imagine that BJP cannot initiate a campaign that will raise Rs. 200 crore+ to do this. Arun Shouri, MJ Akbar, Chandan Mitra, Swapan Dasgupta & Tarun Vijay can be the primary drivers providing editorial & coverage policies for these media outlet |
| Finally a English Newspaper I can read and believe..!Thanks Mr. Mitra By Jay Pancholi on 3/21/2010 7:36:12 PM I am from Atlanta, US and I was searching for a unbiased news for more than three years and after reading this article I feel so so happy that at least there are few people like Mr. Mitra who are true journalist not like Prannoy Roy, Barkha Dutt, or Rajdeep Sardesai who only works money and money. My heartly congratulation to Mr. Mitra and all Pioneer team for such a courage and please keep up the good work..I am with you are there are many like me whos eyes are wide open now.. Thanks again |
| 24X7 news channels are traitors. By suraj on 3/21/2010 7:24:09 PM Chandan da a good one. It's people lile you who can spread awareness among people of what happened in Gujrat and it's truth. The 24X7 channels are traitors who have already sold their nation for their own self-interests. Hope your struggle for truth continues, May GOD Bless you. |
| The Marxist Moonbat is an endangered species! By Mickey on 3/21/2010 6:38:10 PM The Media & Education - two tools of brainwashing and propaganda to the masses are controlled by the left wing extremists. These socialists think that they are genetically superior and hence should be given the noble task of redistribution of wealth (absolute power) to the poor! Modi has been empowering the grassroots through democracy which is a threat to the creation of their communist version of hell on earth. |
| Easy Mantra for popularity By N.K.Jha on 3/21/2010 6:32:44 PM Unremitting criticism of Modi,occasional outpouring of Pak-centric statements and subtle encouragement of secession in Kashmir has become the painless mantra for instant popularity of mercenary Media and crafty political leaders in India. Many sensible people have stopped believing News channels, dubious NGOs and partisan human rights activists and expressing themselves in blogs. Unfortunately, the present PM, instead of applying healing touch, seems to be enjoying and thriving on these divisions |
| Modi and Media By Roudra on 3/21/2010 5:57:09 PM No thanks to Chandan Mitra for this insensitive bias article. When the whole world knows that how Modi manipulated the situation in Gujarat only with the help of so called numbering democratic process; Mr Mitra's fowl cry for Modi again proved he is not acting as a true journalist but a BJP journalist. We should condemn the killer Modi because even history showed us in spite of all the achievements and support Hitler got; he stayed as a most hated personality in the eyes of civilized world. |
| EXPOSE BIASED TN MEDIA By RAGHAVAN on 3/21/2010 4:31:13 PM like modi, jayalalitha has also been targetted by the media specially the tn media and channels, which never report any wrong doings of the ruling party. The pioneer should take up the issue of DINAKARAN OFFICE burning leading to death of 3 innocent people to expose the involvement of dmk bigwigs. The TN media including THE HINDU is hobnobbing with ruling front. |
| Modi hunt.. By Ravi on 3/21/2010 2:49:37 PM The attack against Gujrath started since Somnath temple ransack and still continues. |
| UPA By Prekshak on 3/21/2010 2:42:44 PM UPA also appointed John Dayal (whose hatred to Hindus has been disapproved even by many catholic leaders) to the represent India at UN.He has tirelessly worked to ensure that caste is declared equivalent to race by UN now so that Hinduisn could be shown in bad light.In short, many of the UPA policies have been driven by hatred rather than national interest. |
| the NGOs By Prekshak on 3/21/2010 2:38:45 PM As soon as UPA came to power it immediately allowed many NGOs (funded and loyal to external countries) banned by previous governments.The effort to demonise Modi and aim to keep this victimhood perpetuity by a section of NGO-Media syndicate needs to be seen in this context. |
| Clever Gujarati people By Kadothgajan on 3/21/2010 1:56:43 PM It is a pity that, the Sickular media and the fake NGOs can't able to cheat the clever Gujarati people. |
| Excellent article by Chandran Mitraji By Rohit Gowda on 3/21/2010 1:11:36 PM What a wonderful piece of analytic journalism. Maybe in today's India, you are one of the last few remaining who are committed to truth ,objectivity & balance. I sincerely wish that Pioneer opens a Bangalore edition & a Mumbai edition. We are starved for an objective newspaper in thses cities |
| Media has immense impact on youth By Pradeep on 3/21/2010 1:05:13 PM Some of us from the right wing are taking the media lightly. It is not correct to be smug about the incessant media propaganda against Modi/BJP. More and more parts of India is getting urbanized and large proportion of our population is comprised of youth. Young people are very impressionable and look at mainstream english media for forming their opinions. I have met a lot of young people who look at Modi/BJP as nation-breakers. It is high time the right had its own English channels. |
| Modi By Gouri on 3/21/2010 12:50:24 PM But I cannot understand why Mr. Modi is not responding to the charges level against him openly. I am also interested to know whether SIT which is probing into the matter ( not Investigating) is authorised to summon any person and under what law / rule. |
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| Modi Bolstered By Milind Shankar on 3/21/2010 12:37:59 PM As always, it is a pleasure to hear the sane voice of Chandan. Modi has been, is a stand out CM. Gujarat is way ahead of the rest of India because this CM has demanded high standards and corruption by the state bureaucracy is at an all time low. Roads and electricity to the villages are an example of what can and needs to be done. To be sure the journey is still far from over. Let the hate campaign by the NGOs continue, Shri Modi we admire you. |
| satish.mayya@gmail.com By Satish Mayya on 3/21/2010 12:24:12 PM Modi should be happy. Because of him few journalsits and few NGO frrinds feed their family. |
| Chandan Mitra's article By D.K.Palit on 3/21/2010 12:23:15 PM Brilliant article and accept my congratulations. Since you have the courage of conviction I would request you to spare a thought for exposing anti-Hindu and anti-national paranoid activists like Teestha, Arundhati and their counterparts in the 24x7 chnnels . I suspect that some of our english channels draw sustenance from Pakistan, demented Muslim terrorists and Congress party . You will do a great service to the nation if constitute a special team of reporters to work on such heinous elements . |
| CM, SIT & Secularism By Jitendra Desai on 3/21/2010 12:11:57 PM Well done sir, we needed some one to call this media bluff.While a CM is being hounded by SIT and secularists for the crimes he did not commit 8 years ago, we are being hounded out of Kabul and are being shot dead there.Any one being summoned for this? Gen Kayani is leading a Paki delegation to US with a bill of $ 35 billion and deal for Nuke power.Any NGO to inform the media and tell Indians how we need to respond to these challenges. |
| Media --NGO nexus bolstera MODI By Shanti Bhandari BANGKOK THAILAND on 3/21/2010 11:44:44 AM A PEARL OF WISDOM.Thank you Mr. Mitra. |
| MODI-MEDIA-NGO By NAVIN on 3/21/2010 11:11:39 AM The Gujaratis are truly nationalist thinking at national level so far as politics is concerned..As a result no regional party(Including that of even powerful person like Chiman Patel) could succeed in Gujarat.The Anti-Hindu Indian Media and NGOs bashing Gujarat seems to be playing in the hands of Anti-Hindu lobby for financial purposes even at the cost of National interest. |
| Well Said By Paddy on 3/21/2010 10:58:46 AM Chandan Ji.. Well said.. We from chennai miss your paprer here & we come to your website for reading the e-paper.. Pls plan to expand your operations & plan for a new TV channel..I have stopped watching the elite 24X7 news channels just because they have sold their souls.. We want a true media o establish the truth.. Pls do the needful.. |
| MODI By N S PARTHASARATHY on 3/21/2010 10:39:12 AM I DO NOT FAIL TO READ THE PIONEER FOR A MORE BALANCED PRESENTATION. YOU HAVE NEVER HESITATED TO APPLAUD GOOD ACTIONS BY THE RULING COALITION. CARRY ON, BRAVELY, PIONEER. YOU ARE OUR HOPE FOR A DISPSSIONATE MEDIA |
| media and its trials By premila on 3/21/2010 10:20:26 AM it is high time that hindus have their own news channel and come out with the truth. The godhra issue, babri masjid and kandar issues are constantly kept alive. what about all the riots under the great congress rule? If Modi is responsible for Godhra then Rajiv Gandhi is equally responsible for the sikh riots. Try him now even after his death! It is high time the press tries to understand the masses and stop playing fiddle to the people whom they idolize. |
| Media and palace worship. By Ravi on 3/21/2010 9:50:30 AM Dear chandan, thank you for fine article here.I am confident that soon the efforts of "internet hindus" which are now segregated will coagulate to have an alternate Media clan which will expose the fraud,,hate and paid journalism of so called "secular" journalists. |
| The Pioneer - Chandan Mitra's views By T.S. Balasubramaniam on 3/21/2010 9:23:08 AM It is always a pleasure for me to read the Pioneer. The Editorials and articles it carries echo the true views and sentiments of the majority. All the other English newspapers [they may sell more copies because of their financial clout] seem to tow the line of the ruling party and the minorities who finance these papers. It's a pity I dont get this newspaper in Chennai. However, I satisfy myself with reading the e-paper. T.S. Balasubramaniam |
| Media pundits and their financial interests By AshD on 3/21/2010 7:28:53 AM media Pundits would never be 'truthful' in India considering their financial interests rests with "Dynasty" |
| Thank you, Dr. Mitra. By Anurag on 3/21/2010 7:19:37 AM Absolutely well, well, well said. Most of the media Moguls have literally become intellectual rogues of the so-called 'secular' parties in India. Watch film Rann to see how the whole game gets played. |
| modi is a victim of conspiracy and publicty campiagn By muslimbhagawat on 3/21/2010 6:59:03 AM English Press TV and some NGOs are eengaged in vilification campaign against Narendra Modi untiringly since 2002.But they failed in their atttempt.Money is playing in the hands of these so called secular people who have purchased the whole and mighty lawyers clan and to file abusrd cases.But there is no FIR and specific cases against modi and the courts cannot act without any proof.Modi was the CM at that time of riot in GODHRA and aftermath.So it is not his fault. |
| Freedom of press a myth By Ramesh on 3/21/2010 6:36:28 AM For all the freedom granted by the constitution of India, the freedom of the press is a myth. Most newspapers/e-media not only indulge in self-censorship but actively support various 'causes' propagated by extremists gangs, without ever bothering to seek or study evidence. |
| One of the best articles By Gaurav on 3/21/2010 5:09:01 AM Thanks CHandan da... its a delight reading your article! |
| media and ngos By gbblog on 3/21/2010 4:54:42 AM Blogs are definitely an alternative to the communal anti Hindu media running misinformation and disinformation campaign 24x7. It is no secret that the TV media are now controlled by the Islamic fundamentalist and right wing Christian fundamentalist hate groups who call themselves secular . |
| The media-ngo nexus. By Dr Rangaesh Gadasalli on 3/21/2010 4:33:44 AM Dear sir, excellent article by chandanji. we the overseas Indians watching Tv channels, particularlrly, the nasty news channels are aware of these things for a long time. The comments of Gadkariji on Modiji was a constant subtitle this week. then it is continued as his commnents are not considered to be detrimental to his stature in bjp etc. now modi is skipping the notice by the court etc. the only way is to come out with a tv-Pioneer TV? and counter the opponents. |
| NGOs have been guilty of forging signatures in the distribution of relief to riot victims By Anil on 3/21/2010 1:35:06 AM Public would love to see these NGOs identified. These might be the same ones who organised protests so Mr. Modi can not go to other countries. Mr. Modi may initiate some steps to investigate this issue and blacklist them from operating in Gujrat. |
| Shouldn’t Modi resign now that the SIT has summoned him By Anil on 3/21/2010 1:24:18 AM India need to have a law where if the accused not found guilty, it automatically backfires with equal weight on those who comes up with fantastic story lines. This way it will save money, time and ensure stability in the administration. Criminals will then not dare to target the honest people in the name of democracy. |
| "But for your hate campaign against me, I would not have won such a huge victory". By Anil on 3/21/2010 1:13:41 AM Public has clear view on one thing - they understand where the initiative to defame Mr. Modi comes from and any criticism on him public take it personally. As Pakistan's past starts only from 1947 as if there is no past existed before that, this event of Godara in Media's book apparently start after the killings of Kar Shevaks. Public find it hard to digest. |
